Orson Welles' masterwork dazzles anew in a superb 70th-anniversary digital transfer. It's grand entertainment, sharply acted (starting many of Welles' Mercury Players on the road to thriving film careers) and directed with inspired visual flair. Chronicling the stormy life of an influential publishing tycoon, rooted in themes of power, corruption, vanity. The American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man's last word: "Rosebud."

• 2 hr
• Directed by

  Orson Welles
• Written by Orson Welles, Herman Mankiewics

• Starring

  Joseph Cotten

  ,

  Everett Sloane

  ,

  Dorothy Comingore

  ,

  Ray Collins

  ,

  Ruth Warrick

  ,

  George Coulouris

  ,

  Paul Stewart

  ,

  Buddy Swan

  ,

  Agnes Moorehead

  ,

  Harry T. Shannon

  ,

  Erskine Sanford

  ,

  Philip Van Zandt

  ,

  Gus Schilling

  ,

  Fortunio Bonanova

  ,

  Gino Corrado